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4mo ago
Good point. Let's remember he was the prominent keynote of a major Biden fundraiser and made a prominent public endorsement. He's too close to the campaign itself to even joke about that kind of thing.
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4mo ago
It is, however, still outside the Overton window and not supposed to be publicly stated.
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4mo ago
Fallen Angels maybe?
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4mo ago
What I would do is buy a new hard drive and install it, and keep your old hard drive attached as a second disk (if you have the room) or in a drawer, to serve as a backup. Before you shut it down, though, go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 and choose the option to create Windows 11 installation media. This will let you use a USB thumbdrive to create a Windows 11 boot device. You should be able to then boot off of this USB drive and step through the relatively simple installation wizard to install it on your new hard drive. You should not need a product key at this time; you can activate it later if you want to and you may actually discover that there is a product activation linked to your Microsoft account. If it's not nagging you about activation, you're good to go. And if you don't mind the nagging, you can actually continue to use it this way, albeit some nonfunctional things like customization options are disabled.
Note that if you install Home, you are basically required to log in with a Microsoft Account, and it's difficult to avoid even with Pro. In know plenty of people are ideologically opposed to it, but IMO it's not worth fighting Microsoft over and actually provides some nice benefits (i.e., roaming files, synchronized browser profiles, that kind of thing.)
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4mo ago
In the case of executives, I think the explanation is generally that time opportunity cost of exercise is not worth the benefit, and I would guess that social and stress eating is a factor.
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4mo ago
Attempting to distance himself from it will reduce or blunt Democratic attacks on him precisely zero, any more than Conservatives are less apt to attack Biden about the 2020 riots because of his public denouncements of defunding the police.
Maybe, but it could conceivably make him far more palatable centrists anyways. Think of Clinton and his Sister Souljah moment. Breaking publicly with your party's activists can win over that swing voter, if you can do it without making too many of your own people stay home.
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4mo ago
It's not only about whether you are satisfied with secrecy of your voting. It's also about whether other voters are satisfied that your vote was not coerced. What evidence other than your own testimony could you offer?
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4mo ago
I enjoyed the unstated premise in Andor that computer technology in that universe had largely not advanced beyond early 80's human capabilities, excepting the droids which I am now convinced are actually cyborgs.
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4mo ago
I think they tried to do it in a way that saved face, by demanding a bunch of conditions that they didn't think Trump would agree to. But he called their bluff, and they were stuck.
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4mo ago
what if your county is so big you can't walk out of it in one day and pass out on the road and thusly get busted for sleeping in public? what if everywhere in every direction has criminalized sleeping in public?
In that case you might have a defense of necessity or even impossibility. In practical terms, they could simply offer you a bus ticket to a place with shelters or legal camping, and my understanding is that this is common practice already.
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4mo ago
I think this is an especially important understanding because to a large degree, the job of United States CEO is about being the face man, in effect the salesman selling the United States position to the rest of the world and his federal government policy to the rest of the country. Therefore, being an effective persuader, i.e. being an effective salesman, is actually a major qualification for the job being sought!
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4mo ago
I agree, I think this format worked well and should be the standard going forward. Kudos to CNN for not thinking that people shouting over each other = interesting.
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4mo ago
Reddit feels very hollow these days too
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4mo ago
Why doesn't that work?
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4mo ago
The answer to your question is that Microsoft only controls one component of the entire user experience, the OS. Most of what you describe, and most of what people complain about, is the result of hardware manufacturers and third party software contributing to the experience.
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4mo ago
Isn't that what categories are for?
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4mo ago
Oh, I didn't know that! Wow, that suggests a surprisingly feasible method of warming Mars.
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4mo ago
TK421?
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4mo ago
On balance, it's probably actually a bad idea to trade less methane for more CO2, because methane remains effective for a far shorter time.
I actually think Kirk has a point here. The Gen IV reactors are great and fine, and what they lack is not really funding but reactors. There has been numerous funding events for decades, which has been almost entirely consumed by people not building things.
ETA: This is not a problem limited to nuclear power development. There is a serious, IMO possibly terminal problem of construction sclerosis in this country such that we can't build reactors, railroads, transmission lines, or nearly any other major engineering project that isn't a freeway, except at increasingly impossible high costs and timelines.
Plus, coal-burning provides the benefit of an insolation-reducing and thus planet-cooling sulfur layer! Not that I'd recommend it, personally, over direct sulfur injection.
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5mo ago
Seems like a bit of a streetlight effect to me. These infrastructure leaks are likely tiny compared to methane generated by ordinary organic processes. Their high-end estimate of about 2.5 million tons is as compared to an estimated 570 million or so tons annual emissions, of which 40-50% is from single-celled organisms and most of the rest from agriculture and oil production. Since infrastructure leaks already come directly off the bottom line of the service providers, it seems likely to me that resources would be better utilized elsewhere than trying to reduce this number to zero. The simplest solution, if you want people to stop demanding natural gas service to the home, is to permit enough electrical generation to make electricity cost-competitive, but electricity rates are rising faster than inflation, providing pressure in the other direction.
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5mo ago
I'm a compromise-first kind of guy, and when it comes to all the massive unknowns and ethical issues when it comes to fetuses and personhood, splitting the difference and saying "well too early is obviously more fine, and too late is obviously less fine, and in the middle these clash and it's super subjective, so let's just cover the basics and let the states do the fine details" is a fairly intuitive approach.
This should be the role of Congress however. To elevate this to the role of a Constitutional right, it needs some grounding in the text itself. It is not the job of the Constitution or the Supreme Court to mandate common-sense compromises across controversial policy decisions. That path only ends with the Court as a superlegislature and Congress relegated to the role of implementing their edicts.
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5mo ago
Note that things we consider nonprofits do not in fact line up clearly with the Constitutional categories stated here. Churches are kind of the same thing as Religion, but not entirely! We choose to treat many as nonprofits.
You are conflating nonprofits, which are simply ordinary corporations structured in such a way that profits are not returned to the shareholders, and charitable organizations, which are a special subset of nonprofit corporations to whom donations are deductible from income for the purpose of income tax calculations. I agree that this is primarily a legislative distinction and not a constitutional one, though the unique status of religions as organizational entities complicates things.
Overall however, it's clear The Press is clearly something special and different.
This I strongly disagree with. "The press" (note not capitalized, as in the original) at the time of the Constitution did not refer to institutional media corporations and accordingly they should be given no special constitutional protection. This vernacular meaning did not really come into existence until the 20th century. "The press" referred to a type of technology, to emphasize that freedom of speech didn't apply only to oratory. It definitely did not mean a class of people or corporations.
Ordinarily yes but obviously this is a loophole in the 7th Amendment if violation of that law is an element of the crime, and the judge can simply rule that law to be constructively violated.
Consider two laws: a law against disorderly conduct, and a law against wearing a mask while committing a crime. And the prosecutor brings a case against you for the charge of wearing a mask while committing a crime, accusing you of committing disorderly conduct while masked up. You definitely were masked up, but deny that you were disorderly. Should the judge be allowed to simply rule that you were committing the crime of disorderly conduct for the purpose of this prosecution, without ever proving the elements of the crime, and despite you never being charged with disorderly conduct?
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